15 Exact Moments WCW Booking Stopped Making Sense

15. The Stretcher Match That Wasn’t

Big Sid Vicious couldn't wait to be shot of WCW come SuperBrawl 1 in May 1991. The WWF beckoned, but Vicious had one more contractual obligation to see out on WCW's new pay-per-view. They'd booked him in a 'Stretcher Match' against El Gigante. It looked woeful on paper, and it'd wind up being even worse in execution live on air. Honestly, this might've been the worst combination possible at the time.

Get this: Gigante beat Sid in just over 2 minutes in the gimmick bout. To make things even funnier/more tragic, Vicious didn't even leave on the stretcher as planned. He simply marched out of the building and out of WCW until 1993. Work that one out. Bet the 'Card Subject To Change' small print on tickets came in handy on that occasion, because people didn't really get what was advertised.

This was so typically clumsy of the haphazard promotion.

Firstly, even putting El Gigante vs. Sid Vicious down on format sheets should've got somebody slapped. That was never going to be a winning combo, largely because Gigante couldn't work a lick, and an unmotivated, ready to leave Sid was never going to be the right guy to pull a decent match out of him.

Second, they didn't honour the stipulation. Looking back, this should've been booked as a simple 'Loser Leaves Town' match instead of the half-baked stretcher idea that Vicious clearly wasn't keen on anyway. The only thing needing hospitalised here was WCW's logic. They didn't really show any, and that hurt SuperBrawl's midcard.

Sid didn't care - he was off to the fed for money spinning matches with Hulk Hogan.